Speaker’s Roster

 Want to learn more? There are many dedicated and informative speakers in our network willing to meet with and present to groups in our region. To arrange a presentation, contact Sean Arent at sean@wpsr.org

Seattle

  • Robin Narruhn - WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, Professor of Nursing, Marshallese community member

  • Dr. Steve Overman - physician, WPSR Board Director, IPPNW Nagasaki attendee (also Central Cascades/Winthrop/Leavenworth)

  • Jim Thomas - author of Atomic Pilgrim, member of Pax Christi, and holds an MA in Religious Studies from Gonzaga University

  • Dr. Karl Riecken - WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, physician, US Air Force Conscientious Objector

    Dr Karl Riecken, DO, MA, FMCP-M, originally from Albuquerque, NM, is a family and functional medicine physician in the Seattle area. He originally joined the US Air Force under the Health Professions Scholarship Program. However, during his civilian residency at Community Health Care in Tacoma, WA, he came face-to-face with some of the most difficult facets of the consequences of the military-industrial complex. He became disillusioned with military medicine, applied for and was granted honorable discharge as a conscientious objector. He now works with such organizations as Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, Veterans for Peace, About Face, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, primarily focused on the prevention of nuclear war and its down-chain consequences.

  • Roger Edmark - Former director, World Friendship Center of Hiroshima

    Tacoma

  • Sean Arent - Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Manager, WPSR, NWANW Coalition Organizer

    Kitsap County

  • Capt. Tom Rogers - Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, retired Nuclear Submarine commander

    Olympia

  • Joanne Dufour - Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, citizen diplomat for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

    Walla Walla/Tri-Cities

  • Shampa Biswas - Professor, Whitman College, author, Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

    Oregon/SW WA

  • Fumiaki Tosu - Anti-nuke organizer, Dandelion House Catholic Worker, son of atomic bomb survivor Norimitsu Tosu

  • Vincent Intondi, PhD - Executive Director, Oregon PSR, author, African Americans Against the Bomb

  • Robert “Bo” Jacobs - Historian of Nuclear Technologies, Professor Emeritus Hiroshima Peace Institute Hiroshima City University, author, Nuclear Bodies

  • Roger Peet - Anti-Nuclear Artist and activist whose work has taken him around the world. Roger’s piece “Shinkolobwe” illustrates the full nuclear weapons production chain originating in the Belgian Congo, where the purest uranium ore in the world was forcibly mined by hand to create many of the United States atomic bombs.